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Stobaeus, Volume I
John Stobaeus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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At a Glance
- The wordTisis is requital or retribution, often the payment exacted for wrongdoing.
- In StobaeusThe dream-message to Hipparchus declares that no wrongdoer will escape paying retribution.
- In this edition“Retribution” captures the punitive return; “payment” preserves the associated verbal image.
- A place to beginA dream-message links wrongdoing with unavoidable requital.
- English renderings
- retribution; requital
Meaning
Tisis is requital or retribution, often the payment exacted for wrongdoing.
Use in the book
The dream-message to Hipparchus declares that no wrongdoer will escape paying retribution. Repeated language of endurance frames the warning as something to be suffered. Its force arises within a historian’s account of an ominous dream, not a philosophical demonstration supplied in the excerpt.
Places to read
- I.3.51A dream-message links wrongdoing with unavoidable requital.
Translation in this edition
“Retribution” captures the punitive return; “payment” preserves the associated verbal image.
Source note
Wachsmuth, volume I, printed pp. 62. The excerpt is from Herodotus’s narrative of Hipparchus’s dream before the Panathenaea.